There are a lot of ways to rank the five teams in the American League central that are fighting it out for a division title this year. You can rank them by offense, by starting pitching, by a combination of several statistical factors, by betting odds, by Pythagorean Expectation, and so on. The following table shows how each of those teams ranks according to a few different metrics. Not surprisingly, the Royals lead the pack by the majority of measurements, and the White Sox are most frequently found at the bottom of the list.
| Fangraphs | Vegas (Bovada) | Run Differential | Offense | Pitching |
| KCR (55%) | KCR (72%) | KCR (+46) | DET (4. |